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My Great Aunt Alice Yates bought a house here at the end of the 1890s. It may have been newly built then. It is I believe still standing but whether it is still called Harts Hill House is another matter. ...Read more

A memory of Balham by Constance Phillips

When I was a child in the 1960's, my granddad would take my brother and myself to the old Fire Station. He had just retired after 30 years in the Fire Service. His name was Albert Newns. He had been Station ...Read more

A memory of St Annes by shepherdplanning

I remember, Bertha the old lady that often sat on her doorstep facing the Apollo top of Apsley Grove just quietly having a smoke, never bothering anyone and watching the world pass her by. One Saturday morning on the way to the ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick by twodpoletudor

My mother is writing aother volume of her memoirs and suggested that I send you an account of her sojourn in Tooting whilst her mother was Matron of the Royal Dental Hospital and she spent six happy years ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by paulrwnorris

My grt grandmother, Annie Murdoch nee Young, spent the last 40 or so years at Plantation Cottage (now Murdoch Cottage), Wamphray. I only met her once in 1954 and she is my first memory. Born on 8th August 1862, Crosshill Village, ...Read more

A memory of Wamphray by geomurdo1

I went to school here, 1958-1964 there exist photos of the school but so far none with the Frith Collection. The school was opposite Central Station in Vale Road and resembled a large ...Read more

A memory of Tunbridge Wells by The Hon Paul Randolph Welsby

My mother, Gladys Fordham, was born in Linton in 1903. Her father, Herbert, was a local butcher. As a child in the 1950s, summer holidays would always mean a trip to Linton and I would visit my grandfather at his home ...Read more

A memory of Linton by jjoday

Hi all......I attended Oakfield Seconday Modern School in Oakfield Road, Penge from 1952 until 57 and lived in Pleydell Avenue from the early 40's after we were bombed out of our house on Anerley Hill. I ...Read more

A memory of Penge by lewey1941

l was raised in this village in "50 and 60" and had great times, Now most of my family move on since my parents passed away, Sometime l come back and walk round to remember the times, but l see ...Read more

A memory of Bidford-on-Avon by mumfordj

The photograph in front of the Post Office, showing the Morris Oxford Estate car that used to sell newspapers, magazines, and sweets along The Warren and other holiday camps back in the 1960's was my father, Les Chorlton. My brother, ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by terpsichoris